It is not every day you get the top banner spot of one of the biggest gaming publications in the world, but today IGN honored Project Awakened with a great article about the game, and our UE4 Tech Demo video revealed today.

UE4 Tech Demo Vid

After 3 weeks of talking about how we are going to use the best next gen engine the world has ever known to make your dream character a reality, today we released a little taste of what that will look like. The vid has three sections all build and vid captured in UE4 -

1) The opening section is story 'tone piece' for the world of Project Awakened.

2) The middle section shows some examples of the amazing level of detail you will see on your dream character as they wield your favorite unique blend of special abilities.

3) The final section displays just a small fraction of the highly detailed outfit and equipment pieces you will be able to put on your character, your modded enemies and bosses, and anything else you can think of! Imagine a vast list of pieces like this for you to not only choose from, but eventually tint with your choice of colors and tweak them to your liking!

Just 5 Full Days Left...Go Tell The World!

You have all been truly amazing supporters. Project Awakened is not a sequel to nostalgic IP, it is not styled on games from the past that are known successful formulas, it is not safe and easy - it is something new and different, a whole new way of looking at games, a vision we want you to own with us that could transforming action gaming...and you have been brave enough and trusting enough to try to make it happen with us. But, we have a ways to go and time is getting short.

We want to dedicate a team to this game, get you a closed beta in Q1 of next year so you can help us shape and balance the game, get to open beta in Q3 of next year so we can bring in even more people to see what we have built together...but we can only do that if we get funded. Otherwise we have to keep making Project Awakened in our spare time between projects, and it's been years of that already.

So please, think of all the characters you have ever wanted to be, all the modds you've ever dreaming of making or playing, and think about what that's worth for you as a gamer, and who you could tell about it!

Comments

For a project that is so ambitious, the third part of the video felt a little lackluster. Having a lot of costume options is important, but it's kind of uninteresting. Show off how powers interact with an outfit. Can you get the metal on the gauntlets to heat up when you use fire powers? Would those neat ferromagnetic spikes flow through cracks in armor you are wearing? Can you visibly store and retrieve gadgets and items from pouches on those tactical vests? If you have eye-beams, how would it look when you set them off while wearing a full helmet? Will a costume get visible battle damage during a fight? Can you customize costume elements so they are part of your powers, or even have powers of their own? Then show it off!

Sorry for ranting, I just want to see this project succeed, and the third part of that video is just really missing the 'wow' factor that the first two parts have.

To be honest, I think that perhaps this Kickstarter was put out too soon. I think that it probably would be faring much better (as in, goal would have been met or almost met by now) if there was a full-blown gameplay trailer available with everything fully built in UE4, and if the video still displayed here on Kickstarter was more than just the game's logo on a black background ... something flashier that grabbed people's attention. Just my two cents. While I would LOVE to see this snatch up another $300k in 5 days, unfortunately as someone who's backed 100 projects on Kickstarter over the last year, I'm inclined to say that's not going to happen. I think if you guys continue to work hard on this between projects and get to the point where you have something that's a bit closer to realization, you should come back and re-launch this Kickstarter (maybe with a little more leeway in how long it runs). I know I'd certainly come back to pledge again, possibly more than I'm able to now. But no matter what happens, PLEASE don't stop working on this. It needs to happen.

It's a shame Valve/Steam doesn't publish this. It seems like it would be right up their alley. A new generation of gaming that has limitless modding options. I think the generally only self-publish games but they are about the only publishers actually worthy of a game like this.

This video is neat, and I'm thoroughly excited about the concept of the project, however this video is more than disappointing. Not to the point where I'm pulling funding, I was just hoping to see a compilation of previous videos on this one. Views of the entire game, from the game-play to the character. All I see here are cent-a-dozen high quality clothing models, and some pretty awesome create-a-character graphics.